The Most Detailed Review of Narula Institute of Technology, Kolkata

The cirriculum of Narula Institute of Technology is based on the cirriculum of MAKAUT University. Its the same out dated and irrelevent syllabus taught in every other college. The syllabus of CSE, IT, CS(AI-ML), CSDS are all almost same with the exception of a few subjects specific to that particular branch. The syallabus of first year is common to all the branch. Coding is included in the first semester so thats a good thing. In the first semester you will be introduced to the C language, which is a good languague to build foundation but its not relevent in today's time. In the second year, you are introduced to C++, Java and Python. If you really want to excel in study and grab a good placement then you will have to study on your own. While the cirriculum of a college may provide a good structure to study, it's not enough to grab a good placement oppurtunity. You will have to study a lot more than what's in your syllabus, take part in coding contest and hackathons, build projects and solve coding problems. Each semester you are subjected to 2-3 slot test of 20-30 marks each and an end semester exam towards the end of the semester. The end sem exams comprises of the majority of the marks of your CGPA so deal with it seriously. It is really easy to score more than 8 CGPA per semester if you pay attention in class, follow teacher's materials like questions banks and suggestions and going through the previous year questions. This much is enough. And don't forget to maintain a good relation with each and every teacher, they have around 30 marks in their hands. Also try not to miss any lab classes. You can clear your thoery paper backlog of prev sem in the next sem but if you fail in your practical classes, you will have to repeat the whole year. So treat your pratical classes very serious. However, you may bunk you theory class if you're not aiming for 8+ CGPA.

The college provides interships from the 6th semester. Since i am not in my 6th sem yet. i wont be able to provide exact details. But i know that some of the companies that come to the college to provide internship (and PPO) to the students are: Amazon, Accenture, Juspay, SAP Labs, Deloitte, EY, etc. These come with various roles and the average stipend is around 15-30k per month. These companies provide 3-6 month internship experience to the students. If a student perfoms well in their intetnship, they are given an oppurtunity to take a test at the end of their internship. If they pass the test/interview, they are provided with a Pre Placement Offer (PPO). If they get this PPO in their 4th year, they wont have to worry about anything cause their job is fixed in that particular company

The senario of placement in all of the private colleges of West Bengal are more or less the same. Majority of the students are placed in Service Based Companies like TCS, Wirpo, Infosys, HCL, Accenture, Cognizent, Capgemini, Tech Mahindra, etc. These companies offer anywhere from 3.6 to 6 lpa packages. Only a handful of Product based companies come in these private colleges and cherry pick 2-3 student per college only. This is the reality of all the private colleges, not just our college. If you want to crack a high paying job, you will have to do it off campus. The students are eligible for internships from the 6th semester itself. The college does try to provide internship to students but only a few students end up getting the internships and most students need to find internships on their own. Some companies which came in 24-25 session which offered an internship and PPO are Amazon, SAP Labs, Accenture, etc. For a detailed placement stat, go to our college's website and look for training and placement stats. The college is honest in putting these stats. The stats are mostly reliable. The highest off campus placement in 24-25 session was by Snehadeep De, who secured a SDE role in Amazon with 47 lpa CTC. This was off campus so the college had no role to play here. The highest on campus placement was by two students in the company Juspay. They were offered the SDE role for 27 lpa CTC. The average placement of all the CS branches will be around 5-6 lpa. And approximately around 60-65% of the students get placed. This is the ground reality. And its the same in all of the WB private colleges. If you want to keep a backup option in case you don't want to get a 3.6 lpa job then start preparing for GATE, CAT or Civil Services from your second year. Its always preferred to have a backup option cause you can't trust a private college for providing you jobs.

**This data is valid for the students who took admission in 2024-25 session in BTech via WBJEE counselling. The fees structure increasing every year, so please check the college website for accurate idea of fee structure in your session.** The year wise fees of the college varies for different branches of BTech. For IT, CS(AIML), CSBS, CSDS, CST, the overall fees for 4 years is Rs. 6,50,00 or around Rs. 1,60,000 per year. If you opt for hostel, you will have pay an additional amount of Rs. 72000 per year. The tuition fee for each semester is 55,000. There is a caution fee deposite of Rs. 10,000 which is refundable at the end of the course. There is a one time admission fee of Rs 10,000 taken at the time of admission. Then there is an autonomous fees of Rs. 5,500 per semester. There is also a Development fee which amount to Rs. 9075 every semester. There are many other one time payments like MAKAUT development and registration fee = Rs. 2700, Application Kit = Rs. 1600, Uniform Kit = Rs. 6000 taken at the time of admission. All these amounts are already included in the overall fee structure. The college publishes a well defined fee structure every year on its website so you can refer to that in case of any problem. Since this is a private college, there are no addition discount in the fees for students of other castes like OBC,SC,ST, etc. The college is recognisized by the WBSCC committee and so students can avail the West Bengal Student Credit Card scheme offered by the government of West Bengal. It is an education loan for students which aims to offer education loans upto Rs. 10 lakh for nominal interest rates. The students of this college can also avail various scholarships like Aikyashree Scholarship, Swami Vivekanada Merit cum Means Scholarship (SVMCM), etc. The SVMCM scholarship provides Btech students a scholarship of Rs. 60,000 per year. You can check the details of this scholarship on their official website.

Narula is a college where you will find a mix of good and bad things, just like every other college in WB. I think one of the best parts here is the two main annual fests we have every year. There is a tech fest called Kritanj which happens in March and a cultural fest called Novoday which is in May. Both these fests usually go on for two days. Kritanj is all about technical stuff like coding competitions, robotics events, quizzes, workshops and a lot of other things where engineering students get to show off their skills. I have seen students working for nights without sleep just to finish their projects for this fest. You can feel a different energy on campus when Kritanj is happening. Even people who don’t really like coding end up participating just for the fun of it or to support their friends. Then we have Novoday, which is the cultural fest. This one is more chill and fun. Students dance, sing, do drama, fashion shows, and so many creative things. Everyone dresses up nicely, there are food stalls, music everywhere, and people roaming around with their friends all day. It almost feels like a fair. Even some shy students get on stage and perform, which is really nice to see. You get to see a different side of your friends and classmates. Overall, both fests are a big highlight of college life and you wait for them every year. Apart from these fests, the college also has a pretty good library. There are a lot of books on all subjects and it is very easy to borrow books. You don’t have to run around or fill too many forms. You just go, pick the book you want, and get it issued. The staff is also helpful and won’t give you attitude like in some other colleges. If you want to study peacefully, the library is the best place because it’s quiet and no one disturbs you. Sometimes when you get tired of hostel noise or the crowded canteen, you can just go to the library and sit for hours. Many students spend time there before exam

When it comes to hostel life at Narula Institute of Technology, I think everyone has a love-hate relationship with it. The hostels for boys and girls are almost the same in terms of facilities. Basically, when you get a hostel room, you are provided with a bed, a chair, a table, and a small wardrobe. That’s it. Don’t expect anything fancy like you see in movies. The rooms are decent in size. They are neither too big nor too cramped. But the big problem starts in summer because it gets super hot. Like literally, you feel like you’re sitting in an oven. The college doesn’t allow electric appliances (officially). So you are not supposed to bring things like electric kettles, induction stoves, or even personal fans sometimes. But honestly, who listens? Almost everyone secretly brings some small appliances and somehow manages. You just have to be careful when the warden comes for a surprise check, otherwise, you’ll get caught and they will confiscate your stuff. The rooms are shared, and the allotment is random. You can get 2, 3, 4, or even 5 roommates depending on what’s available and the demand. Sometimes you get lucky and end up with chill people who become your close friends. Sometimes you end up with people who are loud or messy, and then you have to adjust. I think hostel life teaches you a lot about patience and how to live with different types of people. Washrooms and toilets are decent. They are not luxury type but at least they are cleaned regularly, so you can survive. You can’t expect five-star hygiene but compared to some other colleges, it’s still okay. One major problem is the Wi-Fi. They say there is Wi-Fi in the hostel and yes, it exists but it is slow af. Sometimes it’s so unreliable that you feel like you have gone back to the stone age. You’ll see everyone complaining about it almost every day. Sometimes it works fine for an hour, and then suddenly it goes down for no reason. You need to have your own 5g network in case of emergencies.

There are 3 ways of getting into the college that I am aware of : WBJEE Counselling, Management Quota and Lateral Entry (Thru JELET, for students with a diploma). The lateral entry gives you admission in the second year if you have a valid diploma and appear for the JELET exam. Since i am a regular admission student, i will talk about the first two methods only. There is an exam called West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE) which follows the same syllabus as JEE but with a different pattern of paper. If you get a decent rank, you will be alloted this college in the counselling process. If you have a bad score in your JEE exam and you didn't appear for WBJEE exam then you will have to go to the management quota route. You have to pay an additional amount of 2-6 lakhs (depending on the demand, branch and intake of students) on the top of the total fees. My advice is that if you can afford to pay that extra money then go to Heritage Institute of Technology cause they have better placement and location. If you decide through counselling than Narula should be one of your priorities. The overall admission process is the same in all other colleges because they admission is conducted through WBJEE counselling and not the college itself. If you live far away then it may be a problem for you because you will need to come to the college for registration and stuff for atleast 3 times within the span of 2 weeks. My priority list of WBJEE counselling also had Haldia Institute of Tech, Heritage Institute of Tech, Techno Main SaltLake, Academy of Tech, and Narula. My rank was 29k so i was getting Cybersecurity in Haldia, CSBS in Tech Main, CBSC in AOT and IT in Narula. So I chose Narula out of the available options because i didnt want to take any specilisation branch. In 2024, the closing rank of IT in Narula was around 58k in the mop up round (third round). For more details, you can check the wbjee website, they have a section where they store the official cutoff data.

The faculty in Narula Institute of technology are all well qualified. But it does not imply that they are good teachers. There are many faculties in the college who literally don't care about their students, they just come with their notebooks, read some topics from their notes and leave the class. Some teacher just come to fill the chalk board and explain nothing. However there are also some faculty members who try their best to explain each and every topic to their students. The faculty members i liked the most are Anirban sir (IT), Debopriya Dey ma'am (Maths), Dibyendu sir (Maths), Sourav Dwari sir (Phy), Sourav Mukherjee (Chem), Prosenjit sir (IT Lab) and Amit Rakshit sir (ME lab). There are a few more but i dont remember their names. If any of these become your teacher, just know that they will always help you and they are all very chill. There are some teachers who have a bad reputation for being overly strict. Some of them are Nidhi ma'am (Registrat), Shambu Nath sir (Dean), DKT sir (Phy), RJR ma'aa (HU), NLS sir (Maths), KKK sir (Phy lab). These teachers are not approachable at all (except registrar and dean, cause you will have to approach them in case of emergency and they will try to help you). They are very strict and put way too much pressure on the students. If you get any of these teachers, just quitely attend their classes and go home, dont ask them too many questions or argue with them cause they might take it to their ego influence your internal marks. I would say its around 1:50 considering that its the average class size. The student intake is much more than the faculty intake.The college conducts 2-3 slot test per semester and one final exam at the end of each semeter. The slot papers are of 20-30 marks and contain questions from the portion that has been taught in class until that point. End sem is of 80 marks and is based on PYQs and teachers suggestions. Checking is usually easy and lenient. Its easy to score a good CGPA here due to autonomy

When we talk about college life, we often think about late-night study sessions in the library, chilling at the canteen till evening, or hitting the gym after classes. But at Narula Institute of Technology, things are a little different because the gym, cafeterias, and even the library all shut down pretty early. Everything inside the college basically starts closing down by 4 pm. Even if you want to hang out or finish some last-minute studying, you have to wrap up fast. The main college grounds and the open hangout spots also start closing around the time when college officially shuts for the day, which is around 6 pm. After that, no one is allowed to stay inside the campus. Even if you want to practice in the grounds or just sit with friends to watch the sunset, you are politely but strictly asked to leave. The security guards make sure no one hangs around unnecessarily after 6.This rule also connects to the hostel timings.